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I recently recovered code that I wrote 23 years ago in middle school. It was for an Apple II BBS we ran for a little while. To read source code (and BBS messa

I recently recovered code that I wrote 23 years ago in middle school. It was for an Apple II BBS we ran for a little while. To read source code (and BBS messages) that you wrote in 1989 as a kid is quite a surreal experience, to say the least. I got the code running, too, thanks to an email I wrote to a friend on said BBS describing in detail how to edit the code (using the AppleWorks word processor), recompile the code, and operate the BBS from the console. Without that 23-year-old email there's no way I would have ever figured it out.

WalterBright 15y ago
Last month I found, in an old box, a listing of the first computer game I wrote back in 1975. I thought that had been lost forever. I'm going to try and scan it & OCR it.
RandomJoeHacker 15y ago
I recently found a 1.44" floppy with my first serious game, written in, ahem, Visual Basic. Neverless it still runs and is actually very playable and fun! Now I wish I knew better then to shove it in a cardboard box and forget about it for so many years. I could have made some serious $$$ from it. The worst part was reading the source code and realising that, despite being written in Visual Basic, the alghoritms are actually smarter and better than something I wrote very recently. "With great system resources comes a great carelessness about ones performance"